Right, so it was my girlfriends birthday on the weekend and
before that I was kidnapped by aliens and subjected to all
sorts of South Park orifice examinations.......and this
explains why I haven't done any diary entries in a week.
Anyone who thinks otherwise I will callout to duel in the
early morning mist with wet kippers!

Oh alright, I was lazy with the diary but I have been
pressing on with the docbook/SGML thing. Learnt more
elements, but my one tip would be make the type book, don't
waste your time on article or anything else which is what I
was doing until today. Luckily Dave Miller set me straight
along with helping me out with some other confusions. I'm
pretty happy with the structure so I can attack the style
and content again - I'll then leave it to rest and apply
some final polish. The ETA has slipped but that's hardly a
surprise for me.

Of the 'Other Stuff' the most important is that lewing certified me as an Apprentice
which I was both surprised and very happy about: more power
to that hackers code!

Of course we are into the run into Xmas which is the end of
the year where I work so lots of stuff flying round to get
finished before we greet Y2K all raring to go and with the
smell of smoking machinery in the background: imagine
"Hamburger Hill" but without the heroics. So I'm probably
going to be on dead-slow with my private work until the
holiday but I hope to keep it ticking over(I do get 3 weeks
holiday which I am v. pleased about).